A former top editor of an Orthodox Jewish newspaper in New York City was arrested Thursday on charges that he interfered with police officers who were trying to protect the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
Senate Republicans introduced legislation Thursday to codify the Supreme Court's 2022 landmark ruling protecting the Second Amendment right to self-defense, holding that any gun control law must comply with the nation's history dating back to the founding.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with leaders of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday amid financial uncertainty following the failures of two major banks in the past week. Spokesperson Christie Stephenson said in a statement that Jeffries spoke with the bank’s leaders about the developments in the aftermath of the collapse...
When President Joe Biden released his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget, the summary notes in the document claimed it would reduce the deficit “by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade.” While the $6.9 trillion budget proposal is called the “Skinny Budget,” it is lacking a key component that every president other than Joe Biden has included...
Will the coming farm bill support big farms or small? That was a question that repeatedly came up during a Senate Agriculture committee hearing Thursday featuring Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who was also grilled about topics ranging from rural broadband to bird-flu vaccine mandates. To the question of ‘big or small’, both Vilsack and...
French President Emmanuel Macron raised the retirement age in France on Thursday, from 62 to 64, without waiting for a legislative vote. The move sparked widespread outrage in Parliament and across the country as protesters took to the streets to push against the new law, which they have been protesting since January. The bill to...
A woman has reported that the results of her test for sexually transmitted disease were posted to Facebook after a worker at a California hospital gained access to her medical records, according to a complaint shared by her attorney.
The White House on Thursday said the release of video showing a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. drone before it went down over the Black Sea undercut Russia’s version of events. John Kirby, a White House spokesperson on national security issues, told reporters on a virtual briefing that the U.S. may never know what...